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XPeng IRON XPeng Robotics · China · 2025
XPeng's eerily human walking robot with solid-state batteries and a custom Turing AI chip.
IRON went viral for a gait so natural that XPeng cut it open on stage to prove no human was inside. It uses a spine-like flexible structure, solid-state batteries and XPeng's Turing AI chips shared with its EVs and flying cars. Deployment starts in XPeng's own stores and factories.
#humanoid #automotive #solid-state battery #lifelike gait
Official website ↗ ▸ GallerySecond-generation IRON on show at Auto Guangzhou, 23 November 2025 — three weeks after its AI Day debut
© Tim Wu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1 / 3 ▸ SpecificationsClass & build
Form factor Bipedal humanoid
Generation IRON, unveiled 2025. Robotics business spun into a funded subsidiary in August 2026: over US$900 million raised at a post-money valuation above US$6.3 billion (IDG Capital lead; Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, Alibaba), with XPeng retaining control Functionality Bipedal walking Dexterous hands Autonomous navigation Voice interaction Obstacle avoidance
Primary function Store & factory tasks; lifelike gait demo
Manipulation Dexterous hands with harmonic joints; 22 DOF per hand per XPeng's Chinese product page. The company's English release of 24 August 2026 states 21 per hand and 76 across the body — the two first-party figures do not yet agree
Human interaction Voice
Operating environment Retail / factory; indoor Physical
Height / size 178 cm
Weight —
Degrees of freedom 82
Payload —
Reach / workspace —
Max speed — Power
Power source Solid-state battery
Battery capacity —
Runtime —
Charging / swap — Sensing & intelligence
Sensor suite —
Onboard compute 2,250 TOPS combined, from three in-house XPeng Turing AI chips (same silicon line as the company's cars)
AI system XPeng Turing stack (shared with EVs)
Autonomy level Supervised autonomy Deployment & market
Safety & compliance —
Availability & price Not for sale. Mass production targeted for end of 2026, with first units going to XPeng's own stores and campuses; official launch and customer deliveries in China and overseas planned for 2027. No price published Compiled to the wujec.ai Spec Standard v1 — “—” means not publicly disclosed.